National motoring festival – CARnival Postponed until May 2011

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CAMS is staging Australia's first major national motoring and motor sport festival in the rapidly-growing Echuca-Moama region over the NSW Labor Day long weekend from 1-4 October 2010.
CARnival, as the event has been named, will be the largest national car club gathering ever staged in Australia. It is fully supported by the local Shires and will become an annual festival celebrating our enjoyment of all types of motor vehicles.


Online entry for Australia’s first national motoring festival – CARnival – is now open.

Visit the event’s website www.camscarnival.com.au , click the ‘Register Now’ button

After entering driver/navigator/passenger and vehicle details you will be guided to a 'menu' of Non–Competitive and Competitive activities from which to choose. These include events for show cars, club cars, rally and off–road vehicles

The Friday evening Welcome Function, the Motorsport Film, Photo and Art Festival, the Observation Touring event and entry to the Swap Meet and CARnival Village, are included at no extra cost with your $35 (inc GST) Registration fee.

When you tick an event box like ‘Motorkhanas’ you’ll get real value. In this example you'll be able to enjoy up to 10 separate timed runs on a range of either tarmac or grass courses if you start early enough.

If you want a weekend of non–stop fun, tick all the boxes and participate in as many events as you want to for a capped $195 Inc GST and Registration fee.

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Event timetable
Competitors need to decide which events they wish to contest and work out their own schedule of activity. The events will run continuously for the following times:

Airport Speed Events, Autotests, all Motorkhanas, Autocross and Khanacross.
Saturday October 2: 0900-1700
Sunday October 3: 0900-1200*
(*Startling time for last car. Only venues on the Victorian side of the Murray River will be run on Sunday due to traffic congestion on the bridge from cars returning from the Deni Ute Muster at Deniliquin).

The Rallysprint is a fixed format, with the first car starting at 0900 Saturday only and finishing at approximately 1530 that afternoon. Cars run at one-minute intervals. Field limit 120 cars.

The Speedway Sprint (4 laps) will run from 1300 to 1700 on Saturday only

The Navigation Trial is a fixed format with first car starting at 1500 on Saturday only, finishing at 1900. Cars run at one-minute intervals. Limit 100 cars.

The Fuel Economy Test is a fixed format and is being run on Saturday only. The first car starts at 1000 and finishes at 1400. Starters accepted until 1200. Limit 100 cars.

Plan your own event program
As an example, a crew could enter the Rallysprint, then compete in Autocross, Motorkhana, the Speedway Sprints, or take part in the Navigation event.

Other competitors could run Motorkhanas, Speed Events and Autocross in the morning and then compete in the Navigation Test in the afternoon.

There are numerous options, and it is up to participants to decide their own program and nominate the events they wish to contest.

Crews entering Motorkhanas, Autocross, Khanacross, Speed Events and Auto Tests are entitled to two runs at each separate event, which means that a Motorkhana competitor could have a total of 20 runs at the 10 separate venues!

The number of runs at each venue is limited to 2 in most cases. This may be reviewed depending on entry numbers.

At the Heartland Speedway, competitors will be entitled to 2 runs, each of 4 laps.

Competitors waiting for their first run at an event will generally be given priority over those who have already had a run.

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CAMS announce that the 2010 CAMS CARnival planned for October 1st – 4th has been postponed until May 2011. Given the short lead time into the event, we have been unable to attract the interest required that is deserving of such an important event for CAMS and its Clubs.
Michael Smith of CAMS said “CAMS is fully supportive of CARnival and much work has already gone into planning and organising the event. It is unfortunate that we have had to make this decision but the overall level of interest is not what we require to ensure a successful event for the entrants, visitors into the region and the local community of Echuca-Moama. CAMS believe the CARnival format will be a success but that the timing of this inaugural event is better suited to May 2011”.
The decision has been made in consultation with key partner Echuca-Moama Tourism (EMT). Pete White, General Manager of Events from EMT said “It is disappointing that we have to postpone the event this year, but given the current level of registrations, this is the right decision. I am confident that the move to May 2011 will be supported by our existing commercial partners and we look forward to the region hosting the event”.
For further information contact:

Jonathan Cooper
Media & Communications
+61 458 979 381
Jonathan.cooper@cams.com.au